Every day, many of us have the same challenge: What can we pack for nutritious and tasty lunches for our children? Trying to get out of the house on time, breakfast eaten, backpack in hand, lunch included, seems to be challenging enough. Nutritious, well-proportioned meals, including lunch, not only feed the body, but also the […]

This is the boys’ favorite song to sing, listen to, and hum along to since hearing it in Disney’s Cars movie. This song has been sung by many an artist including the more rocked out version from the movie. Since I had this on my Natalie Cole CD (Unforgettable), this song has been repeatedly heard […]

Lately, Alex and I have done a role reversal I’ve found as one of my work projects started stepping up in urgency. I’ve been asked to travel to China/Texas and on frequent trips to SF (most of which I have declined as a result of an inconvenience to my family), but I’ve also found my […]

Nicholas spent this past week at the YCMA Little’s Splashers Camp for K-1st graders.

Highlights:

Got to go swimming (everyday except Friday) and play pretty much all day.
Learned to dunk his entire head underwater for a matter of seconds and swam using a kickboard and a single noodle in the water.
On his last day of swimming, got […]

Wesley was invited to his friend Dean’s 4th birthday party on Saturday so he and mommy headed out to Palo Alto early Saturday morning while Nicholas and dad waited at home for the Maytag man to come fix our washer. Dean had a cars birthday party so there were cars decorations all around their […]

In two more weeks, Nicholas will be wearing a uniform to school every day of the week. I’ve dreaded this day because we’ve had such difficulties with him wearing button-down shirts in the past. All the nice shirts we’ve gotten him has barely been worn (and only after an unspeakable amount of coersing and bribery). […]

Aside from the washer fiasco, we had a fun time at home. We played chess, worked on puzzles, Alex finally put up the backyard gazebo (after many attempts by me to curtail the idea due to obstruction of the view… but ah… at least we have shade). I actually tried out a new pasta dish […]